The android kenerl compile script require the x86_64 system. So I install the Debian X86_64 port on my dev desktop.

Follow the below steps to setup environment for Android sdk.

1) Install Sun Java SDK 64bit and ia32 JRE.

The 64bit Java is requried by the eclipse and the ia32 JRE is needed for running android sdk tools like android, ddms.

Since the Sun Java SDK is not free software, the contrib, non-free Debian repository are needed in the /etc/apt/source.list

For instance, my source.list is

deb http://mirrors.163.com/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.163.com/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

Install the Java SDK and ia32 JRE with command:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install sun-java6-jdk 
# apt-get install ia32-sun-java6-bin

2) For the convenience of running android sdk tools, the default jre should be ia32 JRE. Update the default JRE setting with Debian fashion:

# sudo update-alternatives --config java

Select the ia32 JRE for your default java.

3) Setup JAVA_HOME in .bashrc with the path to Java 64bit SDK for running ANT. 

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

4) Update eclipse.ini to run eclipse with Java 64bit JDK. And the below lines in eclipse.ini

-vm 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.24/bin/java

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